Der Duft des Westpakets

Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry functioned. The interviewees see themselves as legitimate...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics,...

Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German...

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement....

Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? This question marks the starting point of a...

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political...